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Portland's 63rd Fastest Growing Private Company

17 Jun 2016

Portland's 63rd Fastest Growing Private Company

Planet Argon made the Portland Business Journal's Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies list this year!

Congrats to Abby, Annie, Beth, Brian, Carl, Carlos, Casey, Charly, Corinne, Emily, Jack, John C, John L, Jonathan, Kathryn, Neil, Olivia, and Patrick. We all couldn't have done this without you. 2015 was quite an adventure. #PBJ100

Also, huge thanks to all our clients, friends, family, friendly competitors for your role in this.

We đź’™ you,

Robby and Gary

Article  |  UX

What Sketch Can Learn From Fireworks

10 Jun 2016

What Sketch Can Learn From Fireworks

The designers and front-end developers at Planet Argon started transitioning from Fireworks to Sketch in early 2015. I can do most of what I want to do in the Sketch quickly, efficiently, and intuitively. There are, however, a handful of Fireworks features that I would love the Sketch developers to emulate.

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There's always a catch with 'free'

2 Jun 2016

Article  |  Development

Continuous Deployment in Rails

2 Jun 2016

Continuous Deployment in Rails

As developers, we seek tools which make our daily life easier. Over the years, our tools have improved to make one of the often complicated process of deploying our code up to various instances. Making this process as automated as possible will not only increase productivity but also prevent potentially application-breaking issues from ever getting to your remote instances.

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Puma is the Preferred Web Server for Rails Developers

2 Jun 2016

Puma is the Preferred Web Server for Rails Developers

Puma’s popularity as both a web and Rails server has shown steady growth toward the position of preferred tool for both roles. Growing out of the once-mighty Mongrel, Puma hails itself as "A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby". Showing significantly lower memory usage and response times than Unicorn and Passenger the communities support appears to be continuing to shift in its direction.

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Still Not Tracking Exceptions in Rails

1 Jun 2016

Still Not Tracking Exceptions in Rails

A declining but still significant percentage of respondents to Planet Argon's Rails survey (down to 16% this year, from a high of 31% in 2009) don’t use any exception notification at all on their projects. Why turn a deaf ear to an important part of your application’s health?

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